HashiCorp Packer Puppet Bolt Provisioner
Treating workloads as “cattle” or immutable is a popular management paradigm for stateless workloads and is especially prevalent for such
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Author: mreed
Advanced VMware vSphere Template Orchestration
Template management is a critical facet of infrastructure management and traditionally one of the more challenging operations there is. The
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Terraform Puppet Provisioner
HashiCorp Terraform 0.12.2 added official support for a Puppet provisioner. One caveat is that the provisioner is only available in
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The Next Chapter at Puppet
I’m now in my second week at Puppet which is best known for its configuration management software that shares the
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HashiCorp Vault Policy Metrics
I gave a talk for HashiCorp’s HashiDays event earlier this year that centered around operational intelligence for HashiCorp Vault. The
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Getting Started with VMware Harbor
VMware Harbor (https://goharbor.io/) is an open source container registry platform created by VMware. The registry has a number of enterprise
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Serverless InSpec using Native Ruby on AWS Lambda
InSpec is a compliance as code tool that helps organizations perform compliance checks in an automated fashion. Last year I
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HashiCorp Vault Metrics with Splunk
What is telemetry? I’ve heard the word telemetry a few times in my career but mainly when going to the
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Vault Hardening Compliance using Chef InSpec
HashiCorp Vault is quickly becoming the defacto secrets management platform used in environments that rely on DevOps concepts for application
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Morpheus Data: A Next-Gen Cloud Management Platform
Morpheus Data was one of the companies that presented at Cloud Field Day 3 (http://techfieldday.com/event/cfd3/) in early April. I was
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HashiCorp Vault Storage Backend Decision Tree
With over 15 supported storage backends it can be a bit of an arduous task to determine which storage backend
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NetApp: Highly Performant Storage for Cloud Native Apps
NetApp was one of the “legacy” companies that presented a number of compelling solutions at Cloud Field Day #3. The
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